There is an apparent need for specifying the integration of multiple knowledge sources during the design of Web Information Systems (WIS) where the actual data is often retrieved f...
Abstract. The natural and surrogate key architectures are two competing approaches to specifying keys in relational databases. We analyze the performance of these approaches with r...
Slavica Aleksic, Milan Celikovic, Sebastian Link, ...
As XML is gathering more and more importance in the field of data interchange in distributed business to business (B2B) applications, it is increasingly important to provide a for...
The expansion of the WWW and the growth of data sources lead to the proliferation of heterogeneous data (texts, images, videos, sounds and relational views). We call these data ”...
Automotive companies are forced to continuously extend and improve their product line-up. However, increasing diversity, higher design complexity, and shorter development cycles c...
Axel Blumenstock, Christoph Schlieder, Markus M&uu...